Note 91 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY

The king’s sister. Devon’s “Issues of the Exchequer,” 1837, p. 142. As Englished by Devon, the Latin text referred to would mean that the receiver of the money and maker of the carriage was Master la Zousche, but la Zousche was the clerk of the wardrobe, who had the money from the Exchequer to give it to John le Charer, “per manus John le Charer.” Per has here the meaning of pro, a use of the word of which several instances may be found in Du Cange. This indication of Devon’s mistake is due to the late Mr. Bradshaw, of Cambridge.